Renae Wilkinson

Renae Wilkinson, Ph.D., is a sociologist of health and research associate with the Human Flourishing Program whose work examines how social resources, adversity—particularly housing insecurity and homelessness—and context shape health and well-being across the life course.

Her research uses large-scale cohort and administrative data and spans three core focus areas, each defined by a distinct lens: a temporal lens on how social factors and adversities shape health and well-being over the life course; a cross-cultural lens on how forms of suffering and aspects of social context influence flourishing across diverse cultural contexts, through the Global Flourishing Study; and a population-specific lens on how housing insecurity affects health and what protective resources buffer its effects.

Renae has led publications in journals including Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, and Journal of Urban Health. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Baylor University. Google Scholar